double was a tragedy. now Tsonga must keep the hope alive only to give Simon the impossible challenge of winning a decisive match in DC. I don't see Gasquet coming back if he knows they will pull out Nalbandian to stop him. It's all about Simon.

I used to think it was a bad idea for us to play Tsonga everytime whatever the surface his form. His level is not that much ahead of all the other french players imo.

But he just lifts the team up. Even playing bad he'll drop sets but not the match. It takes a good player in good form to beat him, whereas Simon and Gasquet have strange problems and non-matches, that can be really demoralizing. Monfils is a little better but not that much.